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◆As long as man continues to ruthlessly destroy the lives of lower animals, he will never understand the true meaning of health or peace. Because if people can't stop killing animals, then they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the fruits of joy and love. ——Pythagoras, the discoverer of Pythagoras’ theorem and the father of Western vegetarianism ◆ I attach equal importance to human rights and animal rights, and this should also be the common sense that all human beings should have. ——Lincoln, President of the United States ◆ Even the lowest animals created by God are members of the chorus of life. I don’t like any religion that only targets human needs and does not take into account cats, dogs and other animals. ——Lincoln, President of the United States ◆ People's conscience requires people to help all living things that can be helped, and to refrain from harming any life; unless people can follow this conscience, people cannot be said to be moral. ——Schweitzer, French thinker and humanitarian activist ◆Those with the ability to think will definitely oppose all cruel acts. No matter whether the act is deeply rooted in tradition or not, as long as we have the opportunity to choose, we should avoid causing other animals to suffer. victimization. ——Schweitzer, French thinker and humanitarian actor ◆Life is living in a free field according to one's own habits, in which no one dominates anyone, or who is the "master" of whom. ——Schweitzer, French thinker and humanitarian activist ◆Everyone has different ideas about the future: some ideas drive people to understand things and force them to change their lifestyles. These ideas include: freeing slaves, giving equal status to women, stopping killing, etc. ——Tolstoy, the great Russian writer and thinker ◆I don’t need to kill, or ask others to kill, another life is my biggest support. ——Chris Campbell, U.S. Olympic medalist ◆Society has indoctrinated animals into treating animals as things without rights. We must fight against this fallacy. We must wake up our youth. It's amazing what teenagers can do if given positive information. They are our future. ——Sandy Larson, humanitarian educator ◆If we can learn to care for other living things, we will learn to care for our own kind, then we can finally regain our humanity. ——Farley Movitt, Canadian writer ◆The bodhisattva-like kindness that grows and thrives in our hearts goes far beyond what churches and schools teach us. In churches and schools, what we usually learn are some narrow-minded, blind, ignorant, and unloving teachings that tell us that animals have no consciousness, no souls, and no right to be respected. Animals are just used as pets. People ruined, slaughtered and enslaved. ——John Mill, author and pioneer of the American environmental movement ◆If they could talk, would we still dare to kill them? ——Voltaire, French philosopher and poet ◆ When animals are eating, you are also eating; when animals are sleeping, you are also sleeping; when animals are protecting themselves, you are also protecting yourself; when animals have sex, you also have sex ; Animals have children, and so do you; you have a place to live, and so do they. If an animal's body is cut, blood will come out; if your body is cut, blood will come out. So, all the similarities are there. Why, then, should we deny this similarity—that is, the possession of a soul? - Ashley Montego ◆Those who are cruel to animals will not be kind to people. ——Schopenhauer, German philosopher ◆Accept a certain world view that transcends anthropocentrism and even be able to love other animals as much as they love themselves. ——Ralston, Ethicist ◆All things are related to each other, and all living beings benefit from each other. ——Lorenz, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine ◆Almost everyone has broken any form of oath, but a truly loyal dog’s oath is unswerving and unswerving. ——Lorenz, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine ◆In order to achieve the transcendent achievements of civilization and culture, humans have to have free will, and they have to cut off their connection with other wild animals. This is what humans have lost. Paradise is also the price that human civilization has to pay; our yearning for paradise is nothing more than a semi-conscious attachment to this broken thread. ——Lorenz, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine ◆ There is no more powerful act in the world than to arouse the conscience of the homosexuality of life out of one's own conscience. ——Norman Kerens ◆For human nature, the real test of morality, the fundamental test, is how to treat those animals that need his mercy. Yet in this respect humanity has suffered a fundamental defeat, a defeat so complete that all other corruptions have sprung from it. ——Milan Kundera, famous Czech writer ◆Love for all life is the noblest character of human beings. ——Charles Darwin, the proposer of the theory of biological evolution ◆Anyone who is charitable to Allah’s creation is charitable to himself. ——Mohammed, the founder of Islam ◆ Human beings are not the crown of all things at all, and every creature is ranked with him on the same stage of perfection. ——Nietzsche, German philosopher ◆Human love, hope and fear are no different from animals. They are like sunshine, coming from the same source and falling in the same place. ——John Muir, ecological ethicist ◆The difference between the brains of humans and higher animals is clearly one of degree rather than substance. ——Charles Darwin, biologist ◆Charity applies to everyone equally.

If someone thinks that he should only sympathize with humans because he happened to be born a human, and is angry that others should sympathize with other animals, then his heart must be smaller than the head of a pin.

——Hume, British philosopher, historian, and economist ◆If they could talk, would we still dare to kill them? ——Voltaire, French philosopher and poet